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The IaGth III,

FDIroR NATIONAL TRIBUNE: The 10th III.
met at Rock Island, Feb. Is. and perfected an
organization. with J. Fl. Crowder Commander;
George Vaughn and w. J. Ransom, Vice, Com
mandcrs; W. G.. Cochran, Of LOyington, Re-
cording Secretary; J. II. Cleland and Denis
Brophy. Corresponding Secretaries; S. r. Rase-
boro Chaplain.-W. q. COCHRAN, Secretary.
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A Badge Found.

Capt J. s. WickoF writes that jeweler in
Fredericksburg, Va, has in his possession
silver badge found in the neighborhood, and
engraved as follows: S. q. Thompson, Co. q,
5th n. Y. Cavalry"
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Hoods SarsapariIla
100 Doses One Dollar

Sold by all drugrsts st; six for s. Prepared only
~ -L-.-. = -. .------------- Z ------L ~
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HELP WANTED.

GRO 600 WORTH OF GIFTS for Agents
SOO.OOO None worth less slan sio; Every
Agent can get more. Address PAXTON SPENCE,
Treasurer East l6d Street and Fleetwood Ave-, New
York City.
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Very Successful and Reliable Institution.

No lengthy advertisement is necessary to
bolster up DIR. Sage's Catarrh Remedy.
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FALL OF NEW ORLEANS.
Continued from Ist page.)

metropolis within her borders, and should
have been held ut all hazards. The new
Iacthod Of naval warfare adopted by Com
modore Farragut, with the use Of steam, so
changed the old fashioned ideas Of coast and
river deicnseS, that forts were almost useless.
About the 18th Of April, l-G2, Farragut's
fleet steamed up along the city front, bear
ing the Stars and Stripes, which had not
been seen for a year in that port. The flag
ship anchored off Canal street, while the
other vessels SO placed themselves above and
II low rs to command the entire river front.
Along the icyoe. close to the river, were coll
lec;ion7 OF people, who waved their hand
EcrchIgls and
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1OO Doses One DoIIar

Sold 10y All druggists ~ six for s. Prepared only By
c. T. HOOD & CO., Apothecares, Lowell Mass.
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IIOW To OBECOMEA A DETECTIVE FULLY
III EXPLAINED. Also how confidence men and
thieves work and talk. SPIrrALLs DETECTIVE AGENCY,
81 Walnut ST, Philadelphia.
Mention The National Tribune.
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Peculiar TO Itself

Hoods sarsrarIla IS peculiar ia The confidence is
gains among ai class g. Where Sc IS once used H often
becomes flvori-e family medicine. Uoots Srapa-
r.is also peculiar iu jts phenomenal sales standing to-
day Je leading medicine of i.s Sind iu ,He country.
Hoods tsar-i is peculiar .u It's strength and ecou-
omy-I80 doses dollar. It is "a concentrated eT-
tract from Sgeapa5i1, Does, Juniper Berries Man-
drake DauIeeu. aud Ule valuable vegetable remedies,
saa sasl 's1,s, Strength ssal5 a@a %s anr Is Peculiar
similar preparation. Ho0l's SlraIarla ts als1 Iecu-
liar I'm its clean, clear and be1ut.i. appearance g1m-
pared with the muddy gritty makeup OF other prepa-
r;,ts.Us.
u you have never tried this peculiar medicine DO 50
Tt viii purify yaur blood, give you appetite,
tone your whole sys stem.
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Now don't open your eyes too wide and think
/ am romancing about these prices. / am not
just depending on my memory alone for them,
for was only nine years old, but / have these
figures just as they were put down at the time
in black and white by an older hand than
mine.
At last there came one day flag of truce.
bringing through the lines Southern family,
and with orders TO bring back the family of
Col f. But, alas They had not made pro-
vision for so large family, and when places
in the ambulance were taken for mamma and
the babies and one Of my brothers, there was
only room for one more, aud there were two OF
us-my brother and i. Ii was thought best 10
leave us together, so with many tears we were
left in the care of dear old neighbor. like
packages at an express Office until called for "
Ny brother had arrived at the age of conserip-
tion (l6), and had TO 60. But our turn came
after while, and will tell you about IL next
time.
THE NATIONAL TRIBUNE announces with
deep regret that Mrs. Ada F. Strickland died
before finishing her series of most interesting
sketches. THE TRIBUNE's sorrow will bC
shared by all of its readers EDITOR.
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AND WERE SAVED.

Bostic and ] went back the railroad several
miles passed through the village Of Doctor
town. but could Gnd no road leading up the
river. Finally we gave up going back on the
railroad. as we knew we could not cross the
river on the railroad bridge, and the country
for miles between DOctortown and the bridge
was covered with water, so we took little
woods road and followed IL some distance
through the timber until we saw a light flick
ering through the chinks Of a log cabin. We
knocked at the door and after a time il began
10 open slowly and pistol began 10 come out.
We told the man who VIC were and he asked US
/ 10 come in.
We were nearly worn out, and il was necessary
for us TO find place 10 get in out Of the frost,
or we should have been chilled 10 death.
! While we warmed ourselves he called up his
/ two maiden sisters and they baked us some
c0rncakes made Of meal and water, without
SALT which they said was
ALL THEY HAD IN THE HOUSE.
/ We were very thankful. About himself be
said he was cOuvalcscent, and would never be
well enough TO 60 in the army again. lie was
a good enough Union man for Us.
As 10 our escape he said il would be better
for as 10 60 10 Brunswick, on the coast, only 40
! miles away. and we could reach the Yankee
gunboats lying in the mouth Of the river that
we could easily find the way, AS there had
been a railroad and telegraph line. aud the
roadbed aud poles were still left; that the
tOwR was deserted, and very few soldiers in the
! country.
We decided 10 take his advice He then sait
about SO many miles on the road lived a widow
who would give US breakfast; aud SO mucl
farther On man who would do something for us
lie would not be at home, kst would com,
in at certain sgnals from his mother anC
s..s.a,,i unat be was afraid Of the military, VIII,
had been trying for years TO draft him in th'
service, aud that be would show us across Tia,
swamps, which we could not cross ourselves
Toward morning we started for tho widow s
aud found her She was no doubt UnioI
woman, and willingly fed from her smal
stores. We would take nothing but our break
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had seen the end-a dead prisoner, and I
had seen living ones so destitute that they fur
NHcly took the remnant of rags from such dead
10 patch their own. ! returned 10 the camp
about the time the prison ration was served,
bat my appetite was gone, and the stuff was
saved until hunger demanded satisfaction. /
believed the less ] saw and knew OF the suffer.
lnPs OF my fsllow-pilsOners the less miserable
j should be myself, RS had no means OF helm.
ing them 10 made but two or three such visits
during my whole stay of five months. csti.
mated the number Of prisoners at 600, and
the number Of deaths al 20 o. 30 a daS.
The prison was a mini..;:t,rr world in MANY
respects -ouc 81 wealth and poverty. hapripes,
Bns misery but the wealth and happiness oI
hndersonyille began where the poverty nnd
misery OF the outside world left Off The shrrwd
had gotten together by some means little stores
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=, When / should = bsesd q khsI ~ fsai -,
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b. ala Il Il; III ih,ssi I'D, as s:ss ;sS s,s.'
And rrushed 10 ~ tkf61 y i6assk,
> AND laughed iasuG asqgs11nE aisss, .g,.b
o9 On tasS sSs ssssS sfSSE .ad ree See DIR
whore noW my Aefy Slhds nsfs iss.i ~
Nor win fDf tiha 0r tA1trssssIsF s1a ysej
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iTle glsat sfrps4so9 IN ~ 6usst,1 81 Nu!
' 0'''"' "o'u' u''iss' siJ.p"Ss~ri
The ocean palss whire,sr svsep,H .aI
To hear my atlenRth fe3eiqey, i'.,l. e., --,,'yf
And Honsters Of the briny dep
Cover, trembling u ny vJiee u - -'-i~'1 y
carry the wealth md ore - earth, ~, III a
Thof hon Of th svod
TnS M wind a iags atteF M ny going fcrta. :. ra..-.
Inthe dArksene deptha of the, ,fathomless mine,
MY drefess arm doth ptay,
Where 'he rocks ne'er ~! Tie sans decline.
Or the dswnef the gloIims day; .,.,I sil'...
bring earth's glittenng iewelsun., ...,, .,,. T..
From the hidden caves bel0w.f.
And make the fountain's gfanite cup '>'".'+'
With crystal gush o'erA0w.i Tl7.'ua '~.;.t3
1 blow the bellows, Isorgs ~ steel ya /
In all th6 ships Df trade 81 -. .'.id e,
hammer the ore and tan the wheel III .,..a
Where my arms Of strength are made. ,i..,
manage the furnace, the min, be mint
carry,I spin, wesve. 'ftn s:ii 9-'i
And all my d0ings Ipat in point liuff s.3
On every Saturday eve, ~, sbi4uN
I've no muscles to weary, no hfeast to decay
No bones to be laid On the SHELF, .,.
And soon intend you may 20 and play,
While manage the world myb6lf
But harness me down with youfifon band,
Be snre Of your curb and rein, s- i'll
For scorn the strength Of your pupy hands,
As tempest scorns . chain. ''''
Gro. W. Cu1trs, covington, i
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lsrntCxEn vvrTHmH r 8ZsRfbeSl1Esss.

.et.1 Ks!s%s'ss ss1ss' sss s1isssc E.
Dr. g. >Fn.coissj the veil kse%uF veseI j..
nary surgeon of that city, In rsfenenee 70
. case Of hlindt ess; The Docters sayt:
"Fsa5 yssts last .sa s9F@Sg ss W
with the 4uszztss. The disease struck in
{. api.t;aguiabad nhvsio;sao. z;PMYglib n Mglrb... :.
sss and oSissso x!.s 'sSassassa, T. .saess5
i. that noshng n0nldobe do.ssfpE hmm ARD
tinas n, asSsIsss duios' his 'sHii entire. lie ill.,.
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DE BARY-BAYA
MERCHANTS LINE
+
ST JOHNS RIVER STEAMERS-SIDE
WHEEL LOW PRESSURE PALACE
STEAMERS BUILT OF IRON.
CARRYING THE u, s. MAIL,

THROUGH FAST NAIL. a.
The elegant Iron Compartment Palace Steamers Crrr OF
JAcKsoNyuLx Of the DeBayy Baya Merchants Line, and
MAJ. .ng shs rsoPs nd
wharf At u n. and DeBary Baya Herchants Lne wharf
Ss s1ss ssaod
rive at Sanford Railroad wharf s 746 A. T. Retufning
$50 A. 4, the following morning. making soee oonnec
tons With trains for all points North. East end West ~
y f.-r THROUGH FAST FRRIGHT. ouc 4,
Leave: sacksonyills daily, Saturday ana Sunday ex
sora snss :: s.ss raSs asiy
bsesmer hoss lesv,s Monday and Th.rsAay and coca
shroaghto Lake Jsssap. ino1 Il - NJ: .
tAcksosyll1E, rA1AySA bSy4sAoA AsD oRFscRsT CITY
k:ss:.d., "a rsy sRs % E:... s 3
terneliats iaadngs RssaEHng, lssss Tssslxy, Tnln-
G. sss ss;ssssy A.. @ 8 - % & H.
FAIATKA AND aANy0RD DAYLIGHr DIVISION
New and popular steamers FxsDx DsiAxf snd Asrrx 4,
say is1ss os e'B aSa Sz !: iGa snurss.
ip Rssarad.g ls.:ss sissosa g sssS 40 IL sssi7ine
Eiessnt Wsiiins Roons wsth IN modern fnptoye-
pestA. wy bsieSat = Ptasesgs, yhsf.slpX h.a
Sss 20 = A "s sss xfe:
sss oissS 5ssGsa si.S & R:g s:g &s sS s'GS1 "a
potnss n ~ =. n .ai:s atvSr
e t;4|e H3ssSss .s5 ~ = f:{ Rrilassa rs Titus
~. q seH 81 sss.s 3 's 'sosss &C.,
s; ss 4 ';;'s i s''' n: i: ssss sssT g. '
III 9di alidw ,ehie $40 0esjI1SaicSt ~ ~ 3u1bk
lGii'H.s GoBA3Asa gaIissriaoo aeQicfgWtfH
iadxs 7'fsR asSinl9sFF,r,r q s4am rsAt 4a9AEefI
81 bIsod edi 10 nxNv1HoR1g,A 4 .bsnstioa
10y White. 7 saiSssss "a eoasns sidsAsk
la pf114fA4S NJ 10 arnn 3 ~ 4ENMlnEAX .Mk4Xk
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d ThSse wii1 81 5sSs idn DC ossois e tks rs
sss u spsasss: 81 81 ss.s Gee:
g.AedSdsssA'1o Adssss raiirw beDSRRt plBa6Shi lBa6Shifhes fhes
,,I nod do onoI yoH -.T9tigflAhaeeesiF Pa
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For Sale or Exchange for
ana Leon County Lands. y.

,,. A Zine Farm Of 100 acres In PusnAm County; DO
acres under fence; good, dwelling and 9athoSees
orchards of Orange, Peach, Lemon, Grape, Pear
Plum, Zig, strawberry, ste Terms. use, cash
balance, one. two OF three yearAy secured BY mott
gage good school and church within quarter OF q
nn.li 81 z ,di III MAJOR ROBERT GAMBLE,
.r,f.,.. ..;d, an,.. an Real Eststn Agent
Tallahassee, Fis,, II Dec q, 1851 f'-'~"1 1'"'
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1so N yoh leen a AkftH.tiinEiiSip Ia
j aid i'.os rad II II M
~ Dpsn 10 AhSxssdsu4neSdox a'ij 90 -
H. Gold9n With hnttegcsps spread. ~ -.
l BAe stAA6s Win the suKbet glory yH'-'''' -
~ w Hn bet ieslAsa hesd,lnq III ,nniJ
She u the one fAiS maiden
In all Of this woss1 tbsime,ii ~ s"i'ss9
nsl wis i57s I'd sfaa sSntssssy
ioj nj iaq 9d lWfsrs4lnoo h'I,zi,a0
?, ,aoflly Tie light &c - suasSt .1sof siaI
IA. b on her SNOW white hair,
Yes upnA teats ~ Aave Wandered - lf
Handicapped through thlA world OF care;
The sunset OF life d dpd6 ns, WV '''''
bl. Rpt back tArpgs t6eAlm pisI anysan
LOOK With prayer Of Thanksgiving,
- Toths yDws kebt in suaSksao- -0f tsnxs!
~ .sy bns-D 4 ,cagAis., p NJ tsgrsF:
. / rRs~ySSa6 sSo~ ypttsl16.4~ ~ s..eS, .sSsS
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Tor Al nomsnE3 then AeI crossed tlse room,
and Carrie found herself denly srans
posed oseed from an IorddinsEX lesxfietepce into the
heart Of move, and with the proper per.
SON for the Hero. Only, Ii this, there
was noirase pasenSto 70 burst into che room, :,
runnipg over with 1 vehgenoe.aj Their
course Of Arae love, promised to run On
thereafter With the t utmost IsmoothgAleas: moo,t m
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brought into bloom by the most pains
taking process in greenhouses and con-
servatories. not only throng the gar
dens here, but run in wild luxuriance
over uncultivated fields and hillsides-
Florida. too, could be made veritable
Elysium of loneliness Honey-raisiDg
could also be associated with the flower
industry, as the immense fiower-fields
would be paradise for bees, and so
double profit be derived with but little
extra outlay of labor or expense.
BY far the greater part OF the work.
after these flower farms were once
under cultivation, could be done by
women and children. How many poor
slaves would be glad to escape from
the close factories, with their sitting
atmosphere and binding dust, into this
kingdom of the beautiful. whose work
would be to them a greater recreation
than any holiday they ever knew.
How the lustreless eyes would kindle.
the sunken cheek round out, the scraw
ny form develop in the sweet, free air
and gladdening sunshine! And would
it not help to solve the problem,
"What shall we do with our poor -
Harriet Snledd. in Catrre1st.
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HINTS TO WRITER'S.


The Work Required to Produce Euphon-
ious Sentences Full OF Meaning.
Easy writing involves hard work.
1t costs thought and care to bring into
good form single sentence that is
full of meaning, and that can be readily
understood. If every word in every
sentence of piece of writing tells in
the direction of the main purpose of
that writing, you may be sure that its
writer rejected great many more
words than he used. and that his words
as they stand mark the survival of
the fittest," in his evolutionary mental
processes. This idea is not commonly
recognized, yet it is suggested in the
very term ''terse," as applied to con-
densed and compacted phrasing. When
we speak of ''terse writing" we think
of consise and vigorous writing; and
1T sometimes seems to us that such
writing may be the free and emphatic
expression of strong and earnest
thinker, without any special labor on
his part. Yet ''terse" means wiped"
rubbed" 'cleansed;" as applied to
language, it neces sarily involves the
idea of more or less of an eliminating
process. And indeed. as a matter of
fact, all terse writing is "a result of such
process. A "proVerb" is said to be ''the
wisdom of many and the wit of one,"
which is only another way of saying
that it took a long while to bring down
so great a truth into so small COM
pass. Three things are said to be es-
sential to proper proverb: ''sense,
shortness and SALT" or truth, compact
ness and life. And these three quail
ties are not combined in the spontan-
eous utterances of any mans mind. A
young writer needs to write and re-
write, over and over again, condensing
his writing at every revision, in order
to arrive at any thing like terseness.
Many good writer continues this
method all his life through. Yet
thoroughly disciplined mind can do its
work of choosing and rejecting words
in its process of condensation. without
committing every step of the process
to paper. In one way OF another, how
ever, compact writing is always labor
ious writing. If you find it hard to
write tersely, you have reason to hope
that you are on the right track in your
writing. If you find it easy to write
tersely, you may be sure that your
work is failure; and even if you are
not sure on that point, your readers
will be.-S. S. Times.
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GRUMBLING Mr.. BOWSER.

His Patient Wife Exposes Some OF the Ty-
rants Unreasonable DOings.
don't want TO be complaining of
Mr.. Bowser all the time, but some of
his doings ought to be held mp to the
public gaze He came in from the barn
the other day in u great hurry and
called out:
Mrs. Bowser, where's the screw
driverl Hurry, now, for 1 want it
right away''
..Why, don't know where it is. 1
don't have charge OF your tools
Look herei left that screw-driver
on the window-sill in the sitting-Eoona
yesterday afternoon"
We'll, haven't seen it."
'+Who has? It's probably been tucked
into the stove or given away to some
Polaek. It's a wonder the piano doesn't
turn up missing some morning. IF it's
got so that can't leave tool around
the house without its being destroyed
want to know it."
was looking around while he stood
in the middle of the room talking, and
presently found gimlet bored into
the wall where he had intended to put
up a bracket, and said:
There's the gimlet, and You'll be
asking for that next
Mrs. Bowser, when I asked you
where the gimlet was why didn't you
tell lne?'
.tYou didn't ask"
What What brought me in from
the barn?''
''You came after the screw-driYer. "
Never! / came right in here and
asked for the gimlec, and You know it!
Do you suppose I'd try to bore a hole
with a screw-driver?'
"rm sure you said screw-driver.
al know / said gimbletf'
He was mad about it all the afternoon,
and that evening, as we got settled
down after supper, he suddenly OBJ
served:
IF you'll hunt up those rivets III
fix that picture frame"
Ibid you have some rivets around
here?''
Ibid II Didn't 1 bring a paper o
'em home three or four days ago
They've probably gone into the ssov'
or into the cart of some peddler."
Mr.. Bowser, I'll take my oath Their
hasn't been : rivet in this house Sine
We moved in. What could We use rivet
forp''
do you remember the night
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WOULD TAKE NO RISK.

Why Suspicious LiveTy-Stable Man Re
fused Customers Request.
There is Il Gvery-Stable keeper in
Houston, Tex, who is very careful to
whom ne hires his turnOuts-
One Sunday afternoon "a young mar
ried man called ut the livery-stable and
wanted a horse and buggy
''Who is going along with you?'r
asked the hvery-stable man.
Il am going to take my wife's
mother out forh health, and you can
put a Ratchet and spade in the bot
tom of the buggy. as wanted to bring
in some young cedar trees to plant out
at the cemetery"
my buggies are all engaged, and if
they were not, you would have to pay
two hundred dollars buggy hire for one
afternoon"
why, how's that?''
"Besides, don't want to be hauled
up as witness every time the court
meets"
'.Witnesst What about?'
"And then you will be taking a
change of venue because public scnti-
ment Is down on you here, and don't
want TO be attached by the sheriff as u
witness. travel forty miles and be fined
forty dollars, and then be blackguar3ed
by three or four lawyers.
%EWhy, what are you talking aDoAsts''
That's all right. 1 don't say you
amt justified, but I ain't DO fool.
When a man wants to take his mother
fn-law out in the county for her health
with Ratchet and spade, and talks
about planting things in the cemetery,
know all want to. My buggies are
hired for year in advance, Just take
yOnr custom to some rival house. When
hire "a buggy, hire a buggy; ana
when hire hearse, it is a hearse-. 1
don't want to do any business what's
not legitimate. '-IenGs StftingS.